§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list by location the damage that was recorded in the counties of Yorkshire and Humberside after the earthquake that was felt in these areas on 2 April and the seismographic scale.
§ Mr. MoynihanNo comprehensive list of damage caused by the Bishops Castle earthquake of 2 April 1990, exists at present. Information on damage and other felt effects is being collected by the British Geological Survey under the United Kingdom seismic monitoring and information service which is funded by a number of organisations including the Natural Environment Research Council and my Department. The survey has yielded about 6,000 replies so far and further information is being received daily.
It will be several months before all of the information has been studied in detail, but preliminary analysis indicates that little or no damage occurred in Yorkshire and Humberside. The earthquake measured about 5.4 on the Richter seismographic scale.